What is the best diabetic diet to manage diabetes?

What is the best diabetic diet to manage diabetes?

A diabetic diet is one of the most searched topics online! Do you know why? Because diabetes is one of the most dangerous diseases which is increasing at an alarming speed.

According to the International Diabetes Federation, around 425 million adults (age between 20-79 years) are living with diabetic diseases.

What is diabetes?

Diabetes is a chronic, metabolic disease characterized by elevated levels of blood glucose. It rises because the human body is unable to produce enough insulin for its own needs because of impaired insulin secretion, impaired insulin action, or both.

Types of diabetes

There are mainly 3 types of diabetes.

Type 1 diabetes

This kind of diabetes is also named juvenile diabetes mainly affecting children and adolescents. This is an auto-immune disease as the insulin-secreting cells are destroyed by self-body and the body is unable to produce more insulin.

People with type I Diabetes have to survive on daily dosages of artificial insulin to regulate their blood glucose level.

Type 2 diabetes 

This is the most common type, more than 90% of total diabetes cases. It usually happens in middle age and older people.

Also known as Diabetes Mellitus, it affects the way the body uses and responds to insulin. Unlike Type I Diabetes, the body still produces insulin but your body cells do not respond effectively.

Gestational diabetes

This type of diabetes is connected with an unexpected rise in blood glucose levels during the pregnancy phase, which causes complications to both the mother and the child.

This kind of diabetes is temporary and goes away with childbirth. It makes the mother more susceptible to high risk of producing type 2 diabetes in the coming life.

Meals Time	Food To Eat in the diabetic diet
Early morning	Warm water with lemon juice. Or Apple cider vinegar and warm water. Or Watermelon and lemon detox water.
Breakfast	One bowl of wheat flakes with milk. Or Two pieces of lightly buttered wheat bread, milk, and one boiled egg white.
Pre Lunch	An apple or an orange. Or Raita or buttermilk
Lunch	Two medium-sized chupatties and vegetable curry. Or Fish curry, one bowl of rice, and salad.
Evening Snack	Green coffee with two digestive biscuits.
Dinner	Two chapatis and one medium-sized bowl of daal. Or Two chapatis and chicken stew.
Before Bed	A bowl of curd or a glass of warm milk.

Steps for healthy diabetes management

• Eat a well-balanced diet
• Exercise regularly
• Stay hydrated
• Lower your stress level
• Avoid alcohol
• Quit smoking
• Regular Checkups